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Massonia tenella

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Name

Identification
Massonia echinata L.f. [family HYACINTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Unknown, Massonia tenella Sol. ex Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE ] Verified by Unknown,
Related name
  • Massonia echinata
  • Massonia wittebergensis
  • Massonia tenella

Flora

Entry for MASSONIA tenella Soland. ex Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 253, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
MASSONIA tenella Soland. ex Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Journ Linn. Soc. xi. 389
Information
bulb ovoid, 1/2 in. diam.; leaves lanceolate, thick in texture, suberect, an inch long, bristly on the upper part of the face, narrowed at the base into a sheath clasping the peduncle which is longer than the blade; capitulum small, few-flowered; outer bracts ovate, acute, 1/3 in. long; pedicels very short; perianth whitish, 1/3 in. long; segments lanceolate, ascending, not more than half as long as the tube; filaments under a line long; anthers oblong, nearly as long as the filaments. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Aliwal North Div.; Witbergen, 7000–8000 ft., Drège, 3509!
Notes
Figured in Masson's drawings at the British Museum from a plant obtained in Bokkeland, that flowered in England in July, 1794.

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